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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bluenose" data-source="post: 4807602" data-attributes="member: 49017">A knight with a single moderately wealthy manor isn't making much income from it, once expenses are paid. It could even lose money slightly, though that's unlikely unless the area is poor. In general I'd work on the assumption that the fief pays for itself and allows the player to have somewhere to retire to when not adventuring and live at a reasonably high standard. There may be enough spare coin left in the coffers to pay for a dowry for his daughter(s) and knight's gear for his son(s), assuming he doesn't spend recklessly. And he can probably rely on being able to replace a warhorse or a suit of non-magical armour every other year if he needs to.  There is an excellent book A Magical Medieval Society: Western Europe which went into a lot more detail if you want it. Though it doesn't give much help on some of the alternative systems, where income comes in other forms - Pronoia in the Byzantine Empire, for example. But a fairly simple "feudal" system gives decent results.</blockquote>